THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL.

The First Practicable Scheme for a Ship Canal to Manchester.

Great Opposition met with.

First Defeat.

Second Defeat.

Third Bill.

An Alternative Scheme submitted.

The Suez Canal.

Bill receives Royal Assent.

The Bridgewater Canal.

Cheap Coal and Cheap Cotton secured.

A Practical Demonstration

Ship Canal Main Contract.

Municipal Aid.

A Second Corporation Loan.

Mr. Bythell appointed Chairman.

Entrance to the Ship Canal.

Depth of Canal.

Bays to be crossed.

First Embankment.

Many Difficulties.

A Bank "slides."

Sheet-piling driven.

Another Source of Perplexity.

Embankment carried across Pool Hall Bay.

Operations interupted.

The Second Embankment.

Thirteen Thousand Piles driven.

The Third Embankment.

Soft Mud and Silt to be dealt with.

Centre Line of Canal changed.

A Trench in the Mud.

Strong Gales.

Abnormal Tides.

Canal opened to the Weaver Sluices.

Good Work done.

Provision for Tall-masted Ships.

Runcorn Docks.

The Canal turns inland.

Excavation Work.

Number of Men and Boys engaged.

Cuttings damaged by Floods.

Railway Crossings.

Swing Bridges.

The Barton Canal Aqueduct.

The Movable Spans.

Water-tight Iron Gates.

A Successful Arrangement.

Wharves.

Ellesmere Port.

Dry Docks.

Partington Coal Depot.

Imported Live Stock Depot.

Oil Tanks.

Manchester Dock Estate.

The Turning Basin.

A Valuable Link in our Waterways.

The Canal filled with Water.

Queen Vistoria opens the Canal.

Cheaper Transport.

Huge Waterside Goods Station.

Capacity of the Canal.

Success of the Project.

Ten Million People benefited.

Decline of Trade arrested.

Immense Savings in the Cotton Trade.

Manchester as an Importing and Exporting Centre.

One of the Great Ports of the Future.